advice needed on kernel compiling

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Thanks to Greg for the date info on the 2.6.18 patches.

I would like to make a smooth upgrade from Shane's 2.6.17-speakup 
package to the new 2.6.18 kernel, and could use some advice doing this. 
My problem is that Shane's configuration uses an initrd, which I have 
never done manually myself before. Here's my key question:

If I patch the 2.6.18 source tree with speakup (already done), do a make 
mrproper (already done), copy over the existing 2.6.17-speakup 
configuration into the new source directory and run make oldconfig 
(already done), and then run make (running while I am typing this),

then what else must I do before doing a make modules_install and make 
install, in order to deal with the initrd issue? I am using the grub 
boot loader, so an update-grub when done ought to work fine, provided 
there is an initrd file for the new kernel as there is for the old one.

Advice sorely needed,

Chuck

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